Charles Foss Antique Sketchbook with Punning Drawings and Painted Flowers antique English box this seascape feels rather like

this seascape feels rather like it was always there

and that the artist

I don't know a thing about the origins of this carved sculpture (which I don't think photos quite do justice)

3 1/4" tall x 2 3/8" in diameter

Charles Foss Antique Sketchbook with Punning Drawings and Painted Flowers antique English box this seascape feels rather likeThis little notebook of sketches and paintings by a Charles A Foss feels a bit schizophrenic amid a series of quite clever (and I think quite fabulous) punning pencil drawings are a number of simple little paintings of flowers. The flowers are perfectly pretty, but it is the drawings I love, and in this case might be inclined to remove some of them from the sketchbook so as to frame them. (Happily, all drawings have blanks pages on the reverse, so